Peter Brook

was born in London in 1925. Throughout his career, he has distinguished himself in various genres: theatre, opera, cinema, and writing. He has directed over 70 productions in London, Paris, and New York. His work with the Royal Shakespeare Company includes Love’s Labour’s Lost, Measure for Measure, Titus Andronicus, King Lear, Marat\/Sade, US, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Antony and Cleopatra. In 1971, he founded with Micheline Rozan the International Centre for Theatre Research in Paris and in 1974, opened its permanent base in the Bouffes du Nord Theatre. There, he directed Timon of Athens, The Iks, Ubu aux Bouffes, Conference of the Birds, L’Os, The Cherry Orchard, The Mahabharata, Woza Albert!, The Tempest, The Man Who, Qui est lá, Happy Days, Je Suis un Phènomène, Le Costume, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Far Away, La Mort de Krishna, Ta Mayn dans la Mienne, The Grand Inquisitor, Tierno Bokar, Sizwe Banzi Is Dead, Fragments, Warum Warum, Love Is My Sin, 11 and 12, Une Flûte Enchantée, The Suit, and The Valley of Astonishment—many of these in French and English. In opera, he directed La Bohème, Boris Godounov, The Olympians, Salomé, Le Nozze de Figaro (Covent Garden); Faust, Eugene Onegin (The Metropolitan Opera); La Tragédie de Carmen, Impressions of Pelleas (Bouffes du Nord); and Don Giovanni (Aix En Provence Festival). Peter Brook’s books include his autobiography, Threads of Time, as well as The Empty Space The Shifting Point, There Are No Secrets, Evoking (and Forgetting) Shakespeare, and The Quality of Mercy. His films include Moderato Cantabile, Lord of the Flies, Marat\/Sade, Tell Me Lies, King Lear, Meetings with Remarkable Men, The Mahabharata, and The Tragedy of Hamlet.\r\n\r\n"},"status":"SUCCESS"}